Dario Fo Quotes

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• Tidy fees are the most effective remedy, both for the doctor and the patient.
• We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of…
• All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who…
• Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
• Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
• Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it…
• A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
• It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you…
• With comedy I can search for the profound.
• When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
• It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and…
• Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
• Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.
• And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
• Know how to live the time that is given you.
• Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
• Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united…
• It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
• Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they…
• We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this…

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